Historical English Word-Formation and Semantics

Jacek Fisiak is a retired professor and head of the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland), and currently head of the School of English at the Warsaw Division of the University of Social Sciences (Społeczna Akademia Nauk) in Łódź. He has published widely in the area of English linguistics including the history of English, Old and Middle English and historical dialectology on both sides of the Atlantic. Magdalena Bator received her PhD from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań in 2008. Currently she is a lecturer at the School of English at the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw. Her research interests focus on various aspects of English historical linguistics, in particular historical semantics.